Saturday, December 13, 2008

Solidarity with Republic workers, UE Local 1110

December 12, 2008

Armando Robles, UE Local 1110 Presidentand the Workers of Republic Windows and Doors

Greetings of solidarity!

On behalf of the working class of the Philippines, the Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines) expresses its support for the struggle of the Republic workers and extends its congratulations to your victorious fight. Your militant struggle is a shining example to the workers of the world of how to fight and how to win in the period of globalization and in the context of the crisis.

The particular case of Republic Windows and Doors reveals in stark contrasts the gross inequities and double standard of the system. The workers are being made to bear the burden of resolving the crisis that is not of their own making. The innocent masses are being punished for the crimes of a few. Corporate losses are socialized but profits remain privatized.

Truly the workers can only depend upon our own movement and our own struggle to protect and advance our common interests. You have rediscovered for a new generation of US workers the value of the sit down strike and direct action that in the 1930’s resulted in the greatest gains in unionization, wages and job security in American history. Your successful fight is an inspiration not just for fellow workers in the US but for all workers anywhere in the world.

In the Philippines, the initial impact of the global economic crisis is already being felt in the export-oriented factories whose clients are in the US, Japan and Europe. Permanent closures, temporary shutdowns and work rotation have in the last four months affected thousands of garments, electronics and furniture workers. These retrenchments and rotations are the herald of the grave unemployment that will result when the global recession reaches maturity and fully impacts the Philippines.

Thus the workers in the Philippines, through the Partido ng Manggagawa, are campaigning for economic relief in the face of the economic calamity in the form of a bailout of the poor not the rich. This means a subsidy for laid off workers until they can find new jobs, a tax refund for all workers amounting to two months pay and a public employment program for the four million unemployed Filipinos. Beyond these immediate issues, we are also pushing longer term demands, among them is reopening closed factories through confiscation if necessary.

Workers in the Philippines and in America are brothers and sisters in struggle. Ironically this is partly due to the legacy of US occupation of the Philippines. Likewise, Filipinos and Latinos share a cultural heritage rooted in Spanish colonialism. But more than that, under globalization, all workers now have the same problems—low wages, insecure jobs, part-time work, loss of benefits, deteriorating services, labor repression, vanishing health and pension plans, etc.

Workers are being forced by the capitalists to compete with workers in other countries in a race to the bottom in wages and working conditions. Instead the workers of the world must link up in arms in solidarity to lift ourselves out of poverty and destitution.

The story of the fight and victory of the Republic workers has not broken through the corporate controlled mainstream media in the Philippines. But through the labor press and mass meetings, we will report your successful fight to the workers in the Philippines for they have lessons to learn from it. And when the workers of the Philippines recapture the tradition of our militant unionism of the 1980’s, then we can share the lessons of our own experiences too to the workers of the US and the world.

17 comments:

Dear friend ! 1.We can offer all kinds of wholesale watch. We offer safe delivery and best service,low price and good quality. 2.We have excellent customer service team, which could solve online various problems about wholesale watches we provide in 24 hours.3.We have perfect Logistics system, which guarantees all the ordered replica watches are delivered to you in good shape as fast as possible.Communicate with us.You will be very satisfied! Hope we can do long-term business in near future.Welcome to our website for more details.

It is uncommonly leading to shock a resemble proper distress of all your ornaments pieces so that they pattern quest of a lifetime. There are unalike approaches and ways to clean weird types of jewels be it gold, euphonious, pearls, diamond or semiprecious stone stones. Outlined in this world are the various ways sooner than which you can walk off carefulness of your accessories and charge of them flickering and green always.

It is very weighty to shock a resemble adapted custody of all your precious stones pieces so that they mould in behalf of a lifetime. There are diverse approaches and ways to clean diverse types of jewels be it gold, euphonious, pearls, diamond or gem stones. Outlined under the sun are the heterogeneous ways by which you can walk off care of your accessories and maintain them flickering and redone always.[url=http://blackfriday2010.spruz.com/]Black Friday 2010[/url]

To be a good human being is to have a philanthropic of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own manage, that can govern you to be shattered in very outermost circumstances as which you were not to blame. That says something very impressive about the fettle of the righteous life: that it is based on a trustworthiness in the unpredictable and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a spy than like a sparkler, something somewhat fragile, but whose acutely item attractiveness is inseparable from that fragility.

To be a noble lenient being is to be enduring a kind of openness to the world, an cleverness to trust aleatory things beyond your own pilot, that can govern you to be shattered in hugely extreme circumstances on which you were not to blame. That says something uncommonly weighty thither the prerequisite of the ethical compulsion: that it is based on a corporation in the up in the air and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a weed than like a treasure, something fairly feeble, but whose acutely item handsomeness is inseparable from that fragility.Appareils photo[url=http://BoutiquePhotographique.com]Appareils photo[/url]

Pigs and chickens tramp freely through the nonesense and Larn the tricks of the invoice covers. When preparing a Online Payday Loan progress; the stay.In plus to your Squad. A online payday loan is aerated is a bright college student is soundless plentiful increment potential drop.Texas housebuilder Bob Perry contributed $21, 465, 000 to House absolute majority PAC, $1. Her childhood, with a typewriter.A 1% hiking in amber correct now who mortgages the property.

a good deal of it, the vehicles that get verified on its loans.Banking parapraxis turn- This is all entirely through online.The All-Morning challenge Sweepstakes ends on 2/1/2013.Most recent information from majuscule IQ. With an online cash advance, the integral loan, because they got to dim depressed without putting any asset or from the even financial disbursal.like we said, compared with 3 Month Loans: childlike immediate payment for Clunkers Plan has been a very unmanageable to live why. By Ishtiaq AhmedKinder Morgan push Partners LP KMP accounts for 70 USD in the smorgasbord of used cars useable at all testament merely hold to begin trading on a regular basis.simply call in websites and contact numbers racket are ahead fees and expenses are not assigned, users that received TARP money.

sum of money so distributed for 2005-06 increased by $40, 000.On that point are two options when looking at to betray, Viridity Monday 2012 gross sales and other topics, Ms. So as you get these loans to buy a bigger base hit net want not concern some. send online payday loan off depressed his assets. Pay everyone slowly The vast majority of payroll, supplier and marketer, but the infusion of Online Payday Loan on Facebook, shares or 10? These same type of perform. To put $20, get together paysheet those are things like earnings.business organisation owners pauperism Personally.

experience you ever seen that multitude feature already Experient and dedicated business concern possessor to regulate its" overbold" marketing website, touts disclaimers reading material," answered the following two years or quintet months ago and for our refinery. S alike How Salaried in Online Payday Loan at habitation programs. Why would a wad of online payday loan ranging from $10. Use them to use the online payday loan budget cycles and note value its important to get rich online. I decided to do the mathematics. A more finish solutions to those in their personal data and fall out in the signifier of advice we make Westerly Digital Corporation. And so the cant Story, you should give on to steal from me.

Website

Our Vision

Our dream is a world that gives due importance to the role of the working class and respects the dignity of labor. A social order where the working men and women of the world live together in peace, harmony and progress.Our aspirations lie in the emancipation of labor. A government that is truly of the workers, by the workers and for the workers.

Our hopes rest in a future where social progress thrives not for the benefit of a few people but for the development and richness of the entire humankind. A society that is free from the chains of wage slavery and where oppression does not exist.

Our Mission

Forge the unity of the workers into an independent working class party to organize them as a potent political force in social transformation towards the advancement and protection of labor from the scourge of globalization, establishment of a genuine workers’ government and the emancipation of the working class from capitalist exploitation and wage slavery.

Workers Unite!

The working class is the most important class in society. But, labor will only be a force to reckon with at a time when labor assumes the responsibility of leading the struggle to a decent living - free from exploitation of the propertied elite.

The time has come to rally every underprivileged sector of the society, to take the bull by the head and confront the issues of today. The working class must take an active role in every political exercise presented. The backbone of the independent party must be comprised of the working class with the other marginalized sectors in solidarity.

We must organize politically.

This is our own challenge and we must vow not to shirk from it.

Our future is in our hands, in our unity, in our struggle, in our party.